DOWN TO EARTH WITH A BUMP Everyone is slowly getting back to normality after the Christmas Holidays here in the Antipodes. The holidays are taken very seriously [or should I say ‘unseriously’], resulting both in substantial brain-fade during their duration and the build up of a toxic aversion to a return work among most citizens.ContinueContinue reading “REBLOG Keith Johnson: The business case for (or should that be against?) the Wellington runway extension”
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REBLOG Croaking Cassandra: Further thoughts on the Wellington Airport Part 2
In my first post today, I posed some questions around the plausibility of the assumed increase in international travel into and out of New Zealand if the proposed Wellington airport runway extension was to proceed. In this post, I want to focus mainly on how the consultants have calculated the net national benefits from theContinueContinue reading “REBLOG Croaking Cassandra: Further thoughts on the Wellington Airport Part 2”
REBLOG Croaking Cassandra: Further thoughts on the airport Part 1
Shortly after the release of the cost-benefit analysis of the proposed Wellington airport runway extension, prepared by Sapere for Wellington International Airport Limited (WIAL) I wrote a post in which I posed the question “If they build it, what if no one comes?” Since that post, I’ve been to one of the open day/public consultationContinueContinue reading “REBLOG Croaking Cassandra: Further thoughts on the airport Part 1”
A truly independent review of the Airport’s Cost Benefit Analysis
Ian Harrison, a highly respected Principal economist from Tailrisk Economics, has released a truly independent (i.e. not paid for or commissioned by any Party involved in the runway extension) review of the Cost-Benefit Analysis. It really is worth a read. To quote from his Executive Summary: Recently, the Wellington International Airport Company released a costContinueContinue reading “A truly independent review of the Airport’s Cost Benefit Analysis”
OPINION Dom Post: Wellington Airport’s runway extension plan struggles to pass the sniff test
PATTRICK SMELLIE Last updated 12:50, December 3 2015 ANDREW GORRIE/FAIRFAX NZ While there may be 679 long-haul passengers leaving and arriving in Wellington every day already – enough to fill nearly three planes – how many are heading to the same long-haul destinations? OPINION: Running an airline is still one of the hardest ways toContinueContinue reading “OPINION Dom Post: Wellington Airport’s runway extension plan struggles to pass the sniff test”
REBLOG Strathmore Park: Knowing better than the locals
by Lindsay Shelton The Wellington Airport campaign to promote a longer runway is similar to the Transport Agency’s campaign about building a flyover at the Basin Reserve. Both commissioned large numbers of experts to support what they wanted to do. Both failed to connect with the communities who would be most affected. The Transport AgencyContinueContinue reading “REBLOG Strathmore Park: Knowing better than the locals”
REBLOG Keith Johnson: Why can’t WIAL pay for the proposed runway extension?
BBC AND BBBC I was sort of retained as an ‘economist’ by the Guardians of the Bays ginger group that has been formed to contest the Wellington Airport Runway Extension Project – with our tiger-lady organizer Dr Sea Rotmann setting me to tackle the Notorious Business Case that has been recently developed by the consultingContinueContinue reading “REBLOG Keith Johnson: Why can’t WIAL pay for the proposed runway extension?”
NEWS: Longer Runway not Plane Sailing
By Bernard Hickey As a Wellingtonian, I would love a runway that permits direct flights to Asia and the US. It would save me schlepping up to Auckland and walking the gauntlet through the carparks to the international terminal. It could encourage more direct international tourism and boost demand for foreign education. And what I’dContinueContinue reading “NEWS: Longer Runway not Plane Sailing”
NEWS: Extending the runway: one truck every minute, for ten hours every day
by Lindsay Shelton The brutal reality of constructing a longer runway at Wellington Airport is revealed in one of the 27 reports that were published this week. It provides startling details of the number of trucks-with-trailers that will be needed to carry rocks through the city for the reclamation – one every minute, for tenContinueContinue reading “NEWS: Extending the runway: one truck every minute, for ten hours every day”
OPINION Dave Armstrong: Dave Armstrong: Project Runway wild gamble without an airline
Hallelujah! After growing opposition from surfers, Moa Point greenies and airline pilots, the airport runway extension is taking off thanks to the latest report commissioned by, wait for it, the airport. Did you know that for every dollar we invest in the runway extension we could get up to possibly maybe perhaps seven back? It’sContinueContinue reading “OPINION Dave Armstrong: Dave Armstrong: Project Runway wild gamble without an airline”
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